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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -Cicero

Black Socialist Pope to Follow Black Socialist President?

With African Catholic Cardinal Peter Turkson in the running as the
next pope, the media have noted that he carries the fancy title of the
president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, an arm of the
Vatican.But they have failed to note the existence of a left-wing
lobby in the U.S. working feverishly on his behalf. It is the same group
of radicals, with connections to billionaire hedge-fund operator George
Soros, who backed Obama for president by claiming he shared their
Catholic values.One of Turkson’s chief supporters in the U.S. appears to be Stephen Schneck, an associate professor of politics at the Catholic University of America (CUA) and a top official of “Catholics for Obama.”
He runs CUA’s Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies and
holds conferences featuring left-wing and liberal speakers.Former AFL-CIO boss John Sweeney, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, told one of Schneck’s conferences that Jesus Christ was pro-union. Another speaker was socialist Harold Meyerson.When Turkson’s Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
issued a controversial 2011 document, “Towards Reforming the
International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global
Political Authority,” Schneck called it “breathtaking” and a “Catholic way forward” from the present crisis.A “global political authority” was endorsed by Pope Benedict XVI’s “Charity in Truth” encyclical in 2009.Schneck, who served on the board of Catholics in Alliance for the
Common Good, a group funded by Soros, is so important a figure in
progressive Catholic circles that there is speculation that Obama will appoint him as U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. A writer noted
that Schneck “has worked hand-in-glove with different offices at the
USCCB [United States Conference of Catholic Bishops], with Catholic
Relief Services, with the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders and the
Catholic Coalition for Climate Change, and with other Catholic groups,
organizing conferences that call attention to important issues.”He wrote that “Schneck’s range of political and media contacts, his
organizational capabilities, his ability to distinguish a central from a
peripheral issue, all are vital to making these conferences a success.
He brought Cardinal Peter Turkson to CUA two years ago for a conference
on Rerum Novarum.”Rerum Novarum is a papal encyclical in which, as William Mayer notes,
“the Church proclaimed itself competent to speak on economic matters,
establishing a justification for governmental control, to a greater or
lesser degree, of the marketplace and by extension, players within the
economy, including everyday citizens and businesses.”Rerum Novarum is the basis for many “social justice” theories promoted by leftist and Marxist operatives in the church.Turkson, who is from Ghana, has taken “social justice” to the global
level, arguing for a “global financial authority” to solve the world’s
economic problems.For this reason, left-wing “progressives” backing Obama hope Turkson
will be the next pope and use the Vatican in a global campaign against
capitalism.Vatican Radio said
the Turkson document, “Towards Reforming the International Financial
and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Political Authority,” had
“proposed the creation of a global political authority to manage the
economy and a new world economic order” with the United Nations “as a
point of reference.”Crisis Magazine, a conservative Catholic publication, said
it contained “some downright frightening prescriptions for reshaping
the worldwide economy” and could be seen as “a blueprint for a George
Soros agenda.”Turkson spoke at the May 2, 2011, conference
organized by Schneck at CUA on the subject of Rerum Novarum. He
appeared with Bishop Stephen E. Blaire, chairman of the Committee on
Domestic Justice and Human Development at the United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops, and Alexia K. Kelley, deputy director of the Obama
White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.He was scheduled to speak at this weekend’s 30th Anniversary conference of the Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) at Notre Dame.The event, held in collaboration with the far-left Institute for Policy Studies, included workshops and panels on such topics as:

Examining International Aid to Africa in the Light of Catholic Social Teaching

Climate Change and Its Impact on the People of Africa

The expansion of U.S. military activities in Africa

The group says about itself: “AFJN works primarily with the executive
and legislative branches of the U.S. government to advance our message
of social justice, though we are also registered as a UN-DPI [Department
of Public Information] organization at the United Nations.”It counts the Department of Social Development and World Peace, the
national public policy agency of the U.S. Catholic Bishops, as one of
its “collaborating organizations.”Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org.